Sri Krishna says in Chapter VII to occupy your mind on the Divine at all times. At the time of death whatever preoccupies you deeply will become your destiny.
In Chapter IX Krishna points out how while living our daily lives we can comprehend the divine mystery and transform our phenomenal existence with a new perspective about ourselves.
This Chapter is known as the Yoga of Royal Knowledge – Rāja Yoga – and of the Royal Mystery. It is an important chapter of the Bhagavad Gita because Krishna speaks of the knowledge by which Arjuna can gain complete understanding of his true nature and the role of devotion.
Here devotion stands for being devoted to the Divine in a human form who is a vehicle to the Supreme truth. Here Krishna is emphasizing the devotion of the lower self (individual human) to the the Supreme Being within using the power of discrimination. He wants Arjuna to think of all his actions, perceptions, thoughts and feelings as an offering to him (God) because God is their source and so all offerings are in essence prayers to God, their source and Being. The Royal mystery is that “I am in all beings but they are not in Me.” What that means is that Krishna is in all beings as the divine spirit but “ they are not in me” as temporal body, sense, and mind independent and separate personalities but as Pure Consciousness, which is Krishna’s own real nature. This is divine Yoga. And again he says” I am not in them” – he is not the gunas, not prakriti but the God within which shines as pure existence, consciousness and bliss.
Sri Krishna wants Arjuna to know that he (Krishna) is God immanent and transcendent and that he is the goal, the support, the refuge, and the one true friend of all living beings. Those who have devotion for him, and offer everything to him (God), will be released from the bondage of action (karmas) and attain the goal of Divine union with him. The one message is to have a deep, abiding love for him (God) who is in all creatures.
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